linux guy, My name is Darlene Wallach. I purchased a 2T Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk disk from Costco a few years ago. I finally set it up and found your very immensely helpful directions! Thank you very much!!! Darlene Wallach On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:33 PM, linux guy <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today I bought 2 3 TB hard drives to use in my new server. > > I'm writing this in case other people aren't aware that some of the > traditional hard drive management methods don't work for drives larger than > 2 TB. > > Specifically, fdisk and MSDOS type partition tables. > > Here is how I created a single partition on my 3 TB drives. > > > Via parted. > > #parted -a optimal /dev/sdb > > (parted) rm 1 <- this removed the 2TB partition that fdisk made. > > NOTE: fdisk has a 2 TB limit, apparently forced by MSDOS style partition > tables. Ever heard the story about how the width of a donkey ultimately > determined the diameter of the space shuttle ? > > (parted) mklabel gpt <- this is NOT making a label for the drive. "man > parted" is your friend. > > (parted) mkpart primary ext4 1 -1 <- this makes the partition itself, using > the entire drive, which is what I wanted. > > (parted) print > > (parted) quit > > # mkfs -text4 /dev/sdb1 <- this formats the partition > #e2label /dev/sdb1 myth <- this gives it a label, as used by mount in > fstab, ie "LABEL=..." > > > Via gparted. > > It turns out that the whole process can be done from within gparted, if you > know what you are doing. > > The first thing you need to do is create the partition table. > > IF you have used fdisk on the drive previously, the partition table type is > going to MSDOS, which has the 2TB limit. If you continue with the MSDOS > partition table, gparted will allow you to select a 3TB partition to make, > but it will give you the following error: > partition length of 5860528002 sectors exceeds the > msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 > > To get around this, select Advanced on the partition table options window > and set the partition table type to gpt. > > Then you can proceed as you normally would to partition a drive with > gparted. Ie add new partition(s), set the partition type, labels, etc. > > At this point you have an ext4 formatted 3TB drive. > > However, in F15 KDE at least, it doesn't seem to automount like a drive with > an MSDOS partition table. The drive will not automatically appear in the > Places column in Dolphin, for example. Nor will it appear in the list > created by df. > > However, it is available to manually mount. Ie, #mount /dev/sdb1 temp, > just like the old days.* And once you do that, it appears in the df list, > though still not in the Places column in Dolphin. > > I hope this helps someone. > > *This might be particular to my machine being that the drive is a hot swap > SATA device and I did not remove it and replace it. However, drives with > MSDOS type partition tables auto mounted using the very same command > sequence. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- equal justice under law -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
